“Three children and a white cat in the garden of a thatched house, Australia, ca. 1886, by Charles H. Kerry, via National Library of Australia Commons on flickr.
Category: Australian/New Zealand gardens
Posed
Two dolls with a potted cactus, Cuppacumbalong, Australian Capital Territory, ca. 1893, via National Library of Australia Commons on flickr.
The Sunday porch: Jericho
Rae family home with fern fronds as Christmas decorations, Jericho, Victoria, Australia, ca. 1918, via Museums Victoria Collection.
Jericho was a gold mining town, established in the 1860s. The local tree ferns resembling palm trees were said to remind early settlers of the biblical Jericho. By 1918, the old settlement was well into a decline, and its last buildings were destroyed by a bush fire in 1939.
Vintage landscape: autumn
“Autumn,” 1915, an autochrome by Robert Walrond, via Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa).
Life in gardens: tree swing
“Blue gums,” probably in the Riverina area of New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1900, by Charles Kerry & Co., via Tyrrell Photographic Collection, Powerhouse Museum Commons on flickr.
Despite the original label, the large trees are “probably river red gums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis),” according to a note about the photo by the Museum.
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